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Why This, Not That? : Ways Not Taken in the Halakhic Category-Formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli

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This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others?

The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the Halakhah, or law, of that Judaism?

Second, can we account for the topics that the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli would introduce into the system, beyond the repertoire at the foundations defined by the analytical-topical hermeneutics that defines the normative category-formations?

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University Press of America
0761825258 / 9780761825258
Hardback
296.18
29/04/2003
United States
290 pages
157 x 235 mm, 553 grams
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